Been for Education - Innovative site for social learning that allows educators to surf and collaborate on the web with their students in a safe environment where educators create/manage student accounts.
* Otus - A fantastic and easy to use 1:1 learning solution for mobile classrooms (i.e iPads/Chromebooks). Educators can manage/create student accounts, take attendance, grade, and assess students in real-time, and much much more.
* Pixel Press Floors - An amazing iOS app for Game Based Learning that allows students to create their own game by drawing.
Answerables - A super fun and innovative site that brings Game Based Learning together with a Learning Management System to provide a safe environment for students to learn any subject in a 3D virtual world.
* Stick Around - A great iPad app that can be used for Project Based Learning or Flipping a Lesson by creating puzzles/diagrams and having students label them.
* Rosetta Stone for Kids - A wonderful free iPad app for kids ages 3-7 learning how to read.
WordWriter - New learning tool from the award-winning collaborative writing site, BoomWriter. Using BoomWriter's innovative collaborative process, students can develop their reading/writing skills as well as their vocabulary.
geddit - A fantastic simple to use learning tool where students use their mobile device to answer questions with a tap of button in real-time.
Glean - A excellent site for finding educational videos/lesson on math and science.
* TowerStorm - An innovative free iOS game that takes place in a 3D virtual world designed for grades 2nd-10th in the subjects of Math and Literacy.
Tackk - A great site with educational portal that allows educators to create student accounts where they can create static pages filled with dynamic media.
ThingLink - Wonderful site/app for students to tag images with multimedia content such as: text, audio, or video files.
GoNoodle - My favorite site around for giving students "brain breaks" during class through educational and fun activities/videos.
Gooru - A great place for students to find study guides on a wide range of subjects that are aligned to Common Core Standards and ideal for personalized learning.
Booktrack Classroom - A excellent site/app for adding a soundtrack to students' writing. Also, a nice place to find Common Core aligned lesson plans.
Pear Deck - A cool educational tool that interacts with Google Chrome/Drive to create interactive quizzes, slideshows, and presentations.
News-O-Matic - A terrific free mobile app designed to bring 5 Common Core aligned articles to students.
Prodigy - A fantastic free online Math game aligned to Common Core Standards grades 1-6th. Best of all this game differentiates instruction and educators can track students' progress as well as generate detailed reports.
Citelighter - An online Writing platform for K-12 that helps students organize and research for papers and homework. Also, educators can monitor, add assignments, and grade students.
* Plickers - A unique (free) mobile app that acts as a student response system that uses QR codes and mobile devices to answer/respond to questions.
* Math w/ Amigos - Healthy Heroes 1 - Two of my favorite educational iOS game that is ideal for Game Based Learning in the areas of basic Math and Health.
* Chronicle - A unbelievable iPad app for helping teachers with their best teaching strategies by "chronicling" each student through, notes, videos, assessments, and much much more.
* Voice Dream - The best text to speech app I have ever seen with an abundance of features such as: highlighting, definitions, bookmarking, and more.
* AR Flashcards Shapes & Colors - Space - Excellent iOS apps that uses Augmented Reality to bring interactive 3D objects to life to teach about: shapes, colors, and outer space.
* Teachley: Mt. Multiplis - Players build bridges in this computational Math game to help students build their multiplication skills.
* Book Writer One - A free and easy to use iOS app for creating digital books. This is a great way to introduce digital storytelling to the classroom.
30hands Learning Community - A ideal and easy to use cloud based LMS that lets educators assess, collaborate, and grade students in real-time.
* WeLearnedIt - An excellent free iPad for the mobile classroom, ePortfolios, and Project Based Learning.
NameCoach - An interesting free site for teachers wanting to learn student names and the proper way to pronounce them.
* Drawp for School - A wonderful free iPad app with educational portal and cloud storage for creating beautiful looking projects.
* Grid Lines: Ordered Pair Game - One of my favorite iOS apps for Game Based Learning that uses a familiar Battleship style game to practice plotting points on a graph.
RoomRecess - A excellent site for finding free educational games for El Ed students.
* Ask3 - One of my favorite free iPad apps for adding narration to an image to visually explain any topic. This is ideal for creating a flipped classroom.
* GuidedVideo - A wonderful iPad app for Guided Learning where educators create questions with images as the answers that students tap on.
Kahoot - Is a fantastic free tool that combines Game Based Learning and a Student Response System to bring a fun and easy to use real-time assessment tool to the classroom.
Edventure Builder - An innovative new site that is perfect for sparking student creativity by providing an online platform to create: scavenger hunts, interactive stories, or "choose-your-own-adventures".
* Write on Video - A great iPad app for digital storytelling that allows users to upload a video and then annotate, draw, or add images over it.
Photos for Class - The easiest way to find safe Creative Common licensed photos for the classroom that are cited appropriately.
Flashcard Monkey - A fun way to learn vocabulary with cartoon based flashcards.
* Magical Mental Math - A super fun iOS game designed for grades 2nd-6th working on their basic Math skills.
* TeleStory - An amazing new iOS app for digital storytelling that lets kids star in their very own TV show.
* Write to Read - A iPad app designed for kids 3-10 yrs old to help develop their Reading and Writing skills by creating a digital book. Also, this app is ideal for introducing digital storytelling and aligned to Common Core Standards.
Modern Chalkboard - A wonderful free site for finding free interactive SMART board lessons for your digital whiteboard.
* Exam Elf - A fantastic free iOS app that helps students develop basic Math skills while developing test taking skills as well.
* Tell About This - A great iPad app for digital storytelling that lets students record their voice to visual prompts.
* Xnote - An innovative iOS app for geocaching that takes going on a scavenger hunt to a whole new level.
* Tocomail - An excellent site/app that provides a safe "filtered" email environment for kids.
* PICME - A nice free iPad app where kids "star" in their very own digital story by replacing their face with the main characters.
* Quiz Dungeon - A wonderful iOS game that helps students learn basic Math through an RPG style adventure.
* Hideout: Early Reading - A great iOS app for young readers looking to develop their Reading skills in such areas as: word recognition, sounding out words, finding the letter, and more.
* Zeus vs. Monsters / Math vs. Dinosaurs - Two excellent Android apps for learning basic Math skills by fighting off mythical creatures and dinosaurs.
* Tynker - A free iPad app that teaches students how to program/code by assembling blocks together (i.e Scratch).
* Letter Battle - A super fun iOS app for learning how to Spell in a RPG setting.
* Bluster - A free iPad app that helps students develop their Vocabulary by playing a multiplayer game.
* Chromville - A fantastic mobile app that uses augmented reality to have students complete a fun filled 3D adventure.
EverySlide - A great way to take a presentation and make it interactive by sharing a unique access code.
* Kid Screen Time - A excellent schedule/timer for an iOS device that alerts parents when their child's time is up.
Ginkgotree - An innovative way to take any kind of print media (textbook, website, etc) and digitize it to make it their own.
Penzu Classroom - A wonderful safe site where educators and students can create an online journal and track/grade assignments and more.
* ZooKazam - Bring 3D animals to life is this beautiful interactive augmented reality iOS app.
Hooda Math - A great site with over 50 Math games for grades K-12th.
FlipSnack Edu - A new Web 2.0 site with educational portal that allows educators and students to create and deliver online content in a safe way.
Matific - A nice all-in-one site for Math for finding a wide variety of worksheets, videos, activities, and more.
FlashDecks - A cool and easy to use site for finding and creating digital flashcards.
* Imagistory - A wonderful free iPad app where students record/narrate their very own "wordless" picture book.
* Book Builder - A nice free iOS app that acts as a "choose-your-own" adventure where students select how they story is going to progress.
PortfolioGen Classroom - An excellent site with educational portal that allows students to create digital portfolios in a safe environment.
* Toonia Storymaker - One of my favorite iPad apps for digital storytelling where the more a student plays the more features they unlock.
* Math Monsters Bingo - A fun free iOS game for learning basic Math in a Bingo style game.
* Teachable - A very nice productivity iPad app that helps teachers plan, track, and organize their classroom.
ClassWallet - An interesting new site that allows educators to electronically manage and organize classroom funds.
* littleBIG History - One my favorite timeline apps for the iPad that covers areas from the Big Bang Theory to Current Events.
* Little Story Creator - A wonderful new iOS app for scrapbooking or digital storytelling.
Wizenworld - Uses Game Based Learning to teach Common Core Math skills in RPG/Action Adventure setting.
* Angle Asteroids - A fun iOS app that helps students learn how to measure angles in the old "Asteroid" style arcade game.
* Brainfeed - An excellent iPad app for finding safe and educational videos for students.
Classcraft - Using the mega-popular PC game World of Warcraft theme to the classroom to promote learning through Game Based Learning.
* Flipgrid - Kind of reminds me of an "adult" version of Voicethread where educators can ask a question via a video and students can respond.
Fishtree - An innovative new digital learning platform that allows educators to curate and create lessons for their students.
* Speaking Times Table - A fun iPad app for students wanting to learn and practice their multiplication tables.
* Math Hunter - A wonderful iOS game for basic Math skills that has lots of replay value in this adventure filled bow-n-arrow game.
Bouncy Balls - A great way to monitor classroom noise through balls bouncing on a screen.
* Common Core Quest - A excellent free Android app aligned to Common Core Standards for practicing Math and LA tests/problems.
* Reading Raving - A great iPad app for beginning readers where they progress from letters to phonics to reading full sentences.
* Speech Wizard - A terrific iPad app for ESL, parents, or teachers looking to help students with their articulation skills.
* Classkick - Interesting new iPad app that allows educators to gather, assess, and provide real-time feedback with students.
* Door 24 - A wonderful fee iPad app for basic Math skills aligned to Common Core Standards for grades 4th-8th.
ProcessOn - A great site for brainstorming or mind mapping in real-time.
ClassFlow - Cloud based learning platform that teachers can use to create digital lessons to be viewed on browser based devices.
* Sticker Story - A fun iPad app for digital storytelling through the use of stickers.
* Verso - A great way to flip your class by creating lessons students can view at home and then respond to.
* Slidebean - A nice site/app for creating beautiful looking presentations with lots of templates to choose from.
* Elevated Math - An excellent free iOS app for finding animated Math lessons on a wide variety of topics.
Poindle - A nice free tool for educators to schedule appointments.
* MarcoPolo Ocean - A wonderful iPad app for young learners wanting to interact and learn about the ocean.
Comment Bubble - Neat little site where a user uploads a video and then selects what type of feedback others can give (i.e. text, audio, video).
* Puzzlin Pieces USA - Fantastic iPad app designed for kids 6-8 yrs old for learning the geography of the United States.
* Piiig Labs - iPad app that teaches young kids about Science by performing different scientific experiments.
TwistedWave - A nice online audio editor that integrates with Google Drive and SoundCloud.
Top 100 Sites/Apps of 2014